About the job
Role Overview
Paytm is seeking an Engineering Manager for Database Administration in Noida. This leadership role combines hands-on database management with strategic oversight. The manager will guide a team responsible for the reliability, automation, and cloud integration of database systems supporting critical business functions.
The position requires deep expertise in MySQL, along with strong knowledge of MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Cassandra. Collaboration with DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and product engineering teams is central to building secure, scalable, and highly available database solutions. Fostering technical excellence and best practices is a key part of the job.
Main Responsibilities
- Oversee MySQL databases in production and staging, ensuring high availability, strong performance, and reliability.
- Design, manage, and support clusters for MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Cassandra, with a focus on scalability and resilience.
- Develop and enforce strategies for backup, recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery across all major database platforms.
- Lead performance tuning, optimizing queries, schemas, indexing, and partitioning for demanding workloads.
- Manage replication, clustering, and failover architectures to support business continuity.
- Drive automation and AI-driven operations by developing self-healing scripts, predictive scaling, and proactive monitoring. Collaborate with Cloud/DevOps teams using AWS services such as RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, EC2, and S3 to improve cost efficiency, security, and performance.
- Create monitoring dashboards and alerting systems for slow queries, replication delays, deadlocks, and capacity planning. Ensure compliance with security standards, including encryption, auditing, and regulatory requirements.
- Lead incident management and on-call response, minimizing mean time to recovery (MTTR).
- Contribute to database roadmaps, automation strategies, and the adoption of AI-driven DBA practices as a strategic technical partner.
Required Skills and Experience
- 6–10 years of DBA experience, with a primary focus on MySQL (including InnoDB, replication, and clustering).
- Strong working knowledge of MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Cassandra administration.
- Proven ability in database performance tuning, schema design, and query optimization.
- Extensive experience with AWS cloud database services (RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, S3, and backup/restore frameworks).
- Proficiency in Linux administration, shell scripting, and automation frameworks.
- Familiarity with AI/ML tools for database monitoring and operational efficiency.
- Experience managing large-scale, high-availability OLTP/OLAP workloads.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Location
Noida, Uttar Pradesh

